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Cooling Corsair H75 liquid cooler (Very easy to install, actually) Hard Drives (1) WDC WD5000AAKS-00D2B0 ATA Device (2) Seagate FreeAgent Go USB Device Internet Speed 60M cable modem-->Linksys E1200-->1Gbps net card Browser Chrome Other Info This is probably the longest I've ever had a Windows machine run without having to restore it to scratch. I'm used to restoring to "factory" about every 2 yrs. I've run with Win7 since new in 2009 and only recently (Nov, '14) restored to clean up the machine from all my 'xperimenting. LOL!! I may never need another machine.

We try not to guess but use the methods which have worked for thousands of others.

To write the System boot files to a non-System primary partition, you mark it Active, boot the Win7 DVD Repair console or System Repair CD to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times until Win7 starts on its own and holds the System Active Boot flags.

In your case since you have a drive in preceding order marked System Active from which the SSD was booting, you must unplug it to keep it from interfering while making sure the SSD remains set first HD to boot in BIOS.

Well, I think Greg's procedure worked! I ran the repair disk twice and it is now loading from the SSD. I have not hooked the HDD up yet, but that will be my next step. Then I'll reboot. I was as nervous as a new bride during the process. i'll be back soon...

Am having a few problems. It has been freezing up when booting from SSD. Had to turn power off several times. Message came up when loading Chrome that it was corrupt. On next restart, Checkdisk ran and did a lot of stuff, putting files back together on SSD, etc.